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Manhush fire, August 2025 Мангушський район · Manhush

Out · last detection 30 Aug 2025, 10:54 UTC

The fire started on 30 August 2025 in Manhush, Ukraine, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 116 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 835th largest in Donetsk Oblast since 2016 (of 1004 with a page). Number 1160 in Ukraine in 2025, of 1359.

Burnt area
116ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
30 Aug 2025 – 30 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
1
districts
Started on
30 Aug
2025
Heat detections
5
in a single hotspot: 32 MW
Danger at start
55
Extreme · FWI index
Energy released
111MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 30 Aug30 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

30

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

29°high
59km/h · peak gust
31%lowest humidity

It had gone 26 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 9 Sept.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Manhush Мангушський район 26,510 inhabitants · 3.3 km from the town where it started
    116 ha reached on 30 Aug
    0.1 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land93 %
  • Agricultural areas5.3 %
  • Mixed forest1.8 %

Land cover inside the perimeter as reported by Copernicus EFFIS (outside the Corine Land Cover area).

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
30 Aug 29.1 °C 31 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Extreme 55
31 Aug after 28.9 °C 37 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
1 Sept after 29.6 °C 50 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
2 Sept after 27.5 °C 51 % 21 km/h 0.1 mm High 23
3 Sept after 29.5 °C 28 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
4 Sept after 25.9 °C 44 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
5 Sept after 23.5 °C 44 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
6 Sept after 24.4 °C 41 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
7 Sept after 26.4 °C 41 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
8 Sept after 26.1 °C 45 % 44 km/h 0.1 mm High 37
9 Sept after 23.7 °C 48 % 51 km/h 1.2 mm High 24

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 23 Aug 2025
After · 6 Sept 2025

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 28 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 72 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 38: 2.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak72 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1094 µg/m³
Optical depth0.31
2829303112
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 5Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Manhush fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 30 August 2025 and 30 August 2025: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 116 hectares (1.2 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Manhush (116 ha, 0.1 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 3.3 km of Manhush. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.1 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 59 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 55, class Extreme.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Ukraine (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.